Protesters first occupied King and Bay streets, outside the headquarters of most of the nation’s banks. Next, they marched north to Yonge and Dundas streets, creating a “99 per cent” formation to echo the movement’s contention that 1 per cent of the world controls most of its wealth.

The French government's "financial strength has weakened, as it has for other euro area sovereigns, because the global financial and economic crisis has led to a deterioration in French government debt metrics -- which are now among the weakest of France's 'Aaa' peers."